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[Request] What developers need: File dialog [duplicate]

asked 2014-11-22 13:06:34 +0300

leszek gravatar image

updated 2014-12-01 19:58:31 +0300

simo gravatar image

What I stumble upon as a developer for SailfishOS that there is no default way to provide a file open or save dialog. As also the Qt.labs.folderlistmodel QML plugin aswell as others aren't allowed in the Jolla Store the only way would be implementing a file open dialog in c++ (or partly in c++).

This results in inconsistency as developers need to programm their own file dialog. It also is a huge limitation for most developers wanting to write software that goes into the official store and who just want to have a file open dialog for their apps and don't want to reinvent the wheel by writing one on their own.

So my request is to add a standard file open/save dialog to the Silica API in SailfishOS which is allowed to be used for Store Apps or allow the already available Sailfish.Pickers to be used for store apps.

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The question has been closed for the following reason "duplicate question" by Tanghus
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answered 2014-11-22 13:15:52 +0300

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updated 2014-11-22 13:19:10 +0300

True although I think this already has been requested here: https://together.jolla.com/question/321/file-picker-needed/

You could also rewrite your question to ask Jolla to allow the Sailfish.Pickers import, that should contain various pickers

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You are right. Somehow it did not show up on my initial search

leszek ( 2014-11-22 13:18:55 +0300 )edit

Please see what I added to my answer:

lukedirtwalker ( 2014-11-22 13:20:17 +0300 )edit

Thanks. I added this option to my request.

leszek ( 2014-11-22 13:21:45 +0300 )edit

It would be nice to get any further feedback to requests like this - lbt answered the linked question as we are thinking about this on the 24th of December last year but there is still no official file picker dialog available. And there are tons of requests like this all over the places in similar state...

MartinK ( 2014-11-22 13:57:57 +0300 )edit

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